Chapter 117: The Fracture Named Reya

The whispers had grown louder.

Reya no longer spoke with gentleness. She drifted through the House of Memory like a wraith with a heartbeat, smiling too perfectly, laughing too softly. But no one noticed—except the clones.

Mirror first. Phantom second.

And then Elyse.

Elyse stood outside Reya's door and heard her humming an anti-memory. A sound that erased thoughts just by existing. A lullaby taught by the Echo Rebellion.

She entered without knocking.

"Where are you from?"

Reya smiled.

"The place they locked away. The place she forgot."

"You mean Liss?" Elyse asked.

"No. The girl before she became Liss. The one who let us die."

She lunged.

Elyse blocked her with memory shields, but Reya was faster now—fueled by the Rebellion's last hope.

"I came here to undo her legend," Reya hissed.

"To make the world forget her again."

The clones arrived.

Korrin followed.

And Liss?

She watched from the mirror.

She didn't enter the fight. She watched.